Sinn Féin - On Your Side

A Sinn Féin delegation led by Party Chairperson Mitchel Mc Laughlin and Sean
Clarke the Six- County Director of Elections met with British Direct Rule
Minister, John Spellar this morning to demand change in Electoral
Registration Legislation.

Mr Mc Laughlin said: „ The delegation impressed on Mr Spellar that the right
to vote is a basic democratic right and the objective should be to
facilitate the exercise of that right and to remove deliberate and other
impediments to exercise that fundamental right.

It is now accepted that this restrictive legislation has discouraged
hundreds of thousands of legitimate eligible voters from registering to
vote. It is also an indisputable fact that successive Electoral Registers
are being incrementally reduced.